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According to the official censuses conducted by the Czech Statistical Office, Catholicism was the religion of 39.1% of the Czechs in 1991 and has declined to 9.3% in 2021; Protestantism and other types of Christianity declined in the same period from around 5% to around 2%; at the same time, adherents of other religions or believers without an ...
Together, they represent over 9% of the Czech population. There are eight dioceses including two archdioceses. Additionally, there is a separate jurisdiction for those of the Byzantine Rite called the Ruthenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Czech Republic. The Catholic Church is the largest single religious denomination in the country.
Moravia was the first among the three historical regions of what now forms the Czech Republic whose ruling classes officially adopted Christianity, between the 830s and the 860s. In 845 Bohemian chieftains or duces also converted to the new faith, but it was just a short-lived political gesture (next year they returned to paganism ).
The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement, with influences from both the Byzantine Rite and John Wycliffe, and that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl. 1401–1415), a part of the Bohemian Reformation.
Map of Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic. The Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, joint in the national Czech Episcopal Conference, comprises : . a Latin hierarchy, consisting of two ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a Metropolitan Archbishopric, with a total of six suffragan dioceses
Czech Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns (1 P) S. Czech Roman Catholic saints (10 P) Czech Servants of God (3 P) Pages in category "Czech Roman Catholics"
Czech Republic religion-related lists (1 C, 3 P) O. Religious organizations based in the Czech Republic (6 C) P. Religion in Prague (3 C, 2 P) R.
This page is intended for Roman Catholic Church meant here as the religious body The main article for this category is Roman Catholicism in the Czech Republic . For Roman Catholic churches , meaning buildings , see the nested category Catholic church buildings in the Czech Republic .